In this article, I wanted to provide a guide to using ping – ICMP Echo – to troubleshoot your network. Most people use ping on their platform to test if they can reach a given destination. Just open up a terminal (Linux or MAC OSx) or command line (Windows: Start> Run> cmd) and enter the […]
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This blog article is a culmination of my years of experience in the networking and computing worlds. Over those years, where I began as a bench and field technician, I have had a number of classes that my employers sent me to to teach troubleshooting skills. Usually termed with the words “logical troubleshooting” or something
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Hi everyone! Happy Thanksgiving 2021. Just released – Wireshark 3.6.0!!! Why is this important to me, you, and everyone who troubleshoots Voice traffic using Wireshark? Well, there are many changes to the voice related functionality in Wireshark in this (actually as part of the development 3.5.0 – you can read more on that here) release.
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Hi Everyone! If you are like me, you use Wireshark every day. For me that means troubleshooting many different network applications and traffic types, including Voice traffic – VoIP. With the development release of Wireshark version 3.5, the Wireshark folks announced some significant changes coming to the Voice capabilities set within Wireshark, and I hope
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In this article we will get you started with the iPerf tool. We will be using it in a Linux environment, but know that it is available for all systems at http://iperf.fr. iPerf is used to test performance, throughput, packet loss, and jitter on TCP/IP networks. iPerf defaults to testing TCP – port number 5002. iPerf
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Just like out article on Network Management Tools (you can read/view that list here), I wanted to compile a list of Networking Utilities and Tools in this article. These are software programs. All these tools can be essential to troubleshooting network issues, as well as learning how the network works. If you are looking for
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As explained in our prior article on QUIC, you may be seeing a lot of QUIC traffic in your packet captures. Assuming you have read that article, and understand that all QUIC traffic is encrypted, you know the only way was to see some of the details is using Chrome itself. Today it means using
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Sometimes troubleshooting in Wireshark is easy-ish, you find a misbehaving protocol behavior or pattern or even a bad packet, sometimes it is tricky and takes a while to find something, and sometimes it is as clear as mud. Check out these great references as well: Our custom profiles repository for Wireshark Our Udemy course on
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Monitoring, analyzing, managing, and diagraming a network can often be a huge problem for Network and System Administrators. They are often vendor specific or cost large sums of money to license. We also have the challenge of so many different network infrastructures, like Wi-Fi and wired. If you are looking for a list of tools
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Whenever we teach our Hands-On courses, we always have a section of the course that discusses troubleshooting the network or technology the class is learning. A key part of troubleshooting any network is knowing the technology, no argument. But even the masters of technologies like Multicasting, or IP Networking, or MPLS, still can benefit from
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For those of you who love Wireshark and are supporting Wi-Fi Wireless networks, we would like to offer a great default profile for WiFi. Let’s make no bones about this capturing and analyzing Wi-Fi traffic is not as easy (you have to be in Monitor Mode) as just selecting this profile and clicking capture.
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Most network engineers and technicians are quickly discovering that with “everything over IP” we are required to understand exactly what this means. For a lot of the standard, traditional data communications between clients and servers this means transport over TCP. Furthermore, it requires the ability to troubleshoot TCP. To troubleshoot TCP you have
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CellStream, Inc. – Telecom Consulting and Training! 2-Day Instructor Led Hands On Lab ClassAvailable in either Web Based delivery or On-Site DeliveryMinimum 10 students – Maximum 16 students What Students are Saying about this class: Course Description: Knowing the fundamentals of Wi-Fi/WiFi 6/Wireless LAN Operations is vital to anyone who is in the networking field
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Here are some fundamental PC Troubleshooting Tips. We cant cover everything here, but if something below helps, great! PC Won’t Boot Into Windows Try “Safe Mode” FirstWhen your PC just won’t boot into Windows at all, you’ll probably want to start off with Safe Mode—use the F8 key right when the system starts up to
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Device drivers: which ones are running on your Windows System?? Here is how you find out: you can find detailed information about specific drivers being used in a Windows system by going to Device Manager, selecting the device from the list, and drilling down to the device’s properties sheet. While this technique is fine when
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